baseboards that flip-up, hiding a vacuum system that sucks away the cat hair, dog hair, and dust bunnies at floor level – right ? I hit a switch, a few baseboard sections flip-up, exposing a slit through which a stream of mega-suction cleans up under the bed, the couch, the kitchen floor, and everywhere else – from all sides of the room !

What else do I want ?

Feb 22, 2009 ~ in looking up directions and addresses on Google maps, I even need the aerial view – so everyone should be painting their addresses numbers on their roofs – right ?

I was born, raised, and lived my first 25 years in NYC - da’ Bronx. Over the next 25, I lived in 3 or 4 states, raised my family, and after a long marriage, suddenly became a divorced empty nester in the Heartland.

Having always had an opinion, (w/a New York attitude), and being vocal about it, and with a love of reading and writing, I had a weekend newspaper column in the Midwest, writing about life – its little annoyances and its joys - as seen through the perspective of both a New Yorker and a Midwesterner.

When the newspaper changed editors, I went out with the bathwater, so as a 2008 New Year’s resolution, I decided to blog and began in June 2008.